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0. GOESTER, Jr.

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No. 3243233. Patented Aug. 11, 1885.

s, Pholo-Lfihognpher, Washingivn, n. c,

UNITED STATES PAT NT Fries.

CHARLES COESTER, JR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,233, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed March 25, was. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES Cons'rER, J 1 of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and Stateof Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My toy is made in the form of aliving creature or other article. The trunk is composed of detachable sections normallyheld together, so that they can be easily separated-as, for instance, by friction-and provided with a receptacle for a fire-cracker. The explosion of the the cracker separates the sections and produces the appearance of a living creature blown to pieces. A string may connect the sections, so as to prevent any of them from being lost.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a toy embodying my improvement, and made to represent a man. Fig. 2 isan edge view thereof, and Fig. 3- is a transverse section taken through the junction of the trunk-section.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A designate two sections forming the trunk portion of the man, and A designates a head-section. All these parts may be cheaply madeof fiat pieces of wood; but they obviously need not be fiat. Each of the trunk-sections is provided with a leg, at, and arm a. The

legs and arms are preferably pivotally connected to the trunk-sections.

In this example of my improvement the trunk-sections are not directly connected together; but they are severally provided with jaw-like neck portions 1), that receive within them the neck portion 0 of the head-section. Thehead-section is fitted so snugly into the trunk-sections as to be friction-tight. It is thus secured to them and fastens them toget her.

In the trunk-sections is a cavity, d, forming a receptacle for afire-cracker. This cavity is made partly in each trunk-section. It may be just below the headsection, or considerably below the same, as shown, extending transsections excessively thick, a considerablelength of the fire-cracker may be accommodated in them.

When the fire-cracker. after ignition, explodes, the trunksections and the head-section will be forced apart and the appearance of a man exploding will be produced.

The improvement may be carried out in toys representing other living creatures or articles. v

A string, D, may advantageously be connected to the several sections to prevent them from being so greatly separated by explosions as to be liable to loss. The string may be secured to the sections by small. staples e.

The toy may stand on a support or be suspended by a cord, E.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A toy composed of sections secured together, so that they can be easily separated, and having a cavity for a fire-cracker, substantially as specified.

2. A toy composed of "sections secured together by friction, and provided with a cavity for a fire-cracker, substantially as specified.

3. A toy composed of sections secured together so that they can be easily separated, having a cavity for a fire-cracker, and a string connecting them, substantially as specified.

CHARLES COESTER, JR.

\Vitn csses RUDOLPH Kos'r,

LEOPOLD BERNMEISTER. 

